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Gnash Flash Player Hasn't Seen A Release In One Year

02-15-2013, 02:40 PM

Phoronix: Gnash Flash Player Hasn't Seen A Release In One Year

Gnash, the GPL-licensed SWF / Flash Player that's backed by the Free Software Foundation as a high-priority project, is still far behind Adobe's now defunct Linux Flash Player and it's been more than one year since the last release...

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Not that I don't appreciate the effort of the developers, but it was always too far behind to be useful anyway, it really only sort of worked on a handful of sites.

Same with any other FLOSS Flash implementation. :/ They can't work on it as they like because they do not have the resources to do as they like.
Honestly, Gnash is the most mature FLOSS flash implementation there is right now. So you can't reallyt say anything bad about it unless you just hate any project 'endorsed' by the FSF.

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Grrrr. Just drag your feet people until it's too late. Eventually Linux users will start getting errors about how they need to 'upgrade' their Flash version. This is one of those times I wish I could code, would absolutely love to sit down and code all day making something like this work.

I think the problem is, most devs are busy with other projects and deem this as not important right now. A lot of people are pinning their hopes on HTML5, even though places like Daily motion have ended their trial run and deemed it as not usable.

I wonder if some kind of Kickstarter project to 100% duplicate functionality of Flash on Linux would work?. That seems like the only way to get any alternative on Linux these days, otherwise development is slower than Turtles racing.

Those 'Family' reasons sure to stick a Crowbar in the Cogs huh! lol. Maybe we should stay in our basements.

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Grrrr. Just drag your feet people until it's too late. Eventually Linux users will start getting errors about how they need to 'upgrade' their Flash version. This is one of those times I wish I could code, would absolutely love to sit down and code all day making something like this work.